Milo Ventimiglia’s charming con man drives new ABC caper dramedy
nypost.comMilo Ventimiglia for smoothly switching gears from angst-ridden Jack Pearson to con artist Charlie Nicoletti in his new ABC romantic dramedy “The Company You Keep.”The series, premiering Feb.
19 at 10 p.m., frees Ventimiglia to unbuckle Jack’s suffocating, overwrought “This Is Us” straitjacket and breathe — and he exhales with an easygoing, charming performance (sans the bad Jack Pearson mustache) in a series pulsating with a “Moonlighting”-type vibe, albeit with a radically different plotline.Here’s the setup: Charlie Nicoletti and his family — mom Fran (Polly Draper), dad Leo (William Fichtner) and big sister Birdie (Sarah Wayne Callies) — own a bar in Baltimore and lead double-lives as criminals pulling off high-end heists (one of which landed Charlie in the slammer).
They work together with guile, high-tech equipment, disguises, alter-egos — the works — but their latest scam, stealing $10 million from an Irish crime syndicate, goes awry when Charlie’s ostensible fiancee grabs the cash for herself and vanishes without a trace.
Call it the Big Kiss-off.Charlie goes to a bar to drown his sorrows and meets Emma Hill (Catherine Haena Kim), an undercover CIA agent posing as a data analyst at a “logistics firm.” She, too, is in the throes of a romance gone sour after dumping her cheating boyfriend.
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